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MPs have asked for Sir Alex Ferguson to be ennobled and elevated to the House of Lords following his retirement from management after serving for 26 years as Manchester United manager.
Greater Manchester area MPs Graham Stringer and Paul Goggins have hailed Sir Alex’s “unparalleled success” in management at United and Aberdeen and in an Early Day Motion, the duo asked for the Scotsman to be ‘immediately ennobled and elevated to the House of Lords’. Mr Stringer said:
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“While we have got a House of Lords, it’s for people who have distinguished themselves in their own profession and nobody has distinguished themselves more than Sir Alex Ferguson in the world of football.
“If you’re a great medic or an ex-cabinet minister you can get in to the Lords, and on that basis Sir Alex should get in.
“It is also the case, as far as I am aware, that there has never been anybody from the world of football appointed to the House of Lords. That’s a national disgrace that somebody from the world of football has not been appointed to the House of Lords.
“It’s an area which is the most popular sport in the UK and the only global sport. It would benefit from his experience of running a major institution and managing what are often very difficult, multi-millionaire footballers.
“My guess is that if he were to get in to the Lords, he would behave in the considered way that they behave but it would be fun to see the hairdryer treatment.”
Meanwhile Respect MP George Galloway also suggested Sir Alex to Lordship and told the Press Association:
“He is the greatest living Scotsman in my opinion – I would defy anyone to come up with greater. His achievements are an Everest, in sporting terms. He’s also a very great man.
“He used to help get me elected in Glasgow, as a Labour MP. I think he is a shoo-in for the Lords. He’s a strong Labour man, in the finest Labour tradition, a rock hard union man – he was the union man of the League Managers’ Association. He has a lot to say and do yet in British public life.”
